Flavio Villanustre, LexisNexis, closes out Community Day and shares a bit of the roadmap plans.

1. HPCC Systems Community Day
2015 LexisNexis® Risk Solutions HPCC Engineering Summit
Presenter: Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology
September 29, 2015
Delray Beach, FL
Accelerating the
Pace of Innovation

2. Agenda
• What we learned today
• The future
• Platform
• Community
• Closing words
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#HPCCSummit

3. What we learned today
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Applications
• More effective training through analytics
• Streaming and IoT
• Better understanding of customers and
marketing campaigns with Haier
• Tracking infectious diseases with data and
analytics

4. What we learned today
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Technology enhancements
• Integration with the Logi analytical
ecosystem
• Porting HPCC to OpenPower
• Enhancements in machine learning
• Better NLP capabilities

5. What we learned today
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Data Science research
• Identifying problematic Big Data workflows
• Grooming Data Scientists for today and
tomorrow (panel)

6. What we learned today
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Bringing our future community members and leaders
• Lessons learned from our first participation
in Google Summer of Code
• Our collaboration with ICHEC

7. A teaser view of 6.0 (just tagged in GitHub)
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New activities
• QUANTILE activity
• TRACE Activity

8. A teaser view of 6.0 (just tagged in GitHub)
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New features
• Multithreaded Multislave Thor
• Restore superfile in dfuplus
• Bind Roxie queries to CPU cores
• New ESP methods
• WsESPControl.SetLogging
• WsWorkunit.WUGraphQuery
• New ConfigManager tech preview
• Dynamic ESDL support for JAVA

9. A teaser view of 6.0 (just tagged in GitHub)
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Improvements
• Dali replacement for WU storage
• Security enhancements in the compiler
• Init System improvements
• Thormaster checks in Nagios
• LZ4 compression for temporary files

10. New technologies
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• HPCC Systems Visualization framework
• Many enhancements to KEL (Knowledge Engineering Language)
• More emphasis in hybrid computing (FPGA, CUDA)
• Other ports (ARM: any takers?)

11. Community initiatives
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• Expanded collaboration with research and academic institutions
• Google Summer of Code 2016
• Internship program 2016
• Certification program with Kennesaw State University
• More international activities:
• 4 year collaboration with Imperial College London
• Additional focus on China

12. Closing words
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• Lots of progress in many fronts as shown by the excellent
presentations today
• A number of exciting initiatives in the near future
• And all of this is thanks to you!

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